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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 5 May 2014

    Oy vey - Harvard's Kennedy School students want to be treated like kindergarteners & submit to insulting PC rituals | http://goo.gl/CyJWX2 

    10:38 AM - 5 May 2014
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      1. Christian Zombie Vampires‏ @CWWilkie 5 May 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker I'm a little surprised you're so vehemently opposed to students' desire to understand cultural privilege.

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      1. Matt Gossman‏ @MJGossman 5 May 2014
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        @sapinker @hbdchick that's an awful lot of money to spend to go to re-education camp

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      2. Ⓑⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞ‏ @distributedcog 5 May 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        Even if @sapinker can't see the value in this, getting White Dudes to think more clearly is always a good thing!http://goo.gl/CyJWX2 

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      3. Kevin Brennan‏ @MrRantypants 5 May 2014
        Replying to @distributedcog

        @distributedcog @sapinker Let's not generalise, some of us white dudes are gay, disabled, foreign, homeless, etc.

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      4. Ⓑⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞ‏ @distributedcog 5 May 2014
        Replying to @MrRantypants

        @MrRantypants sorry I wasn't clear about conventions; borrowing from disability studies, using caps to denote socially structured privilege.

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      5. Kevin Brennan‏ @MrRantypants 5 May 2014
        Replying to @distributedcog

        @distributedcog Cool. Not suggesting that white and male privilege aren't everywhere, just think binary social categories can be misleading.

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      6. Ⓑⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞⓞ‏ @distributedcog 5 May 2014
        Replying to @MrRantypants

        @MrRantypants I agree completely. That said, there's a particular form of White Male privilege that dominates academia!

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      7. Kevin Brennan‏ @MrRantypants 5 May 2014
        Replying to @distributedcog

        @distributedcog Absolutely, saw Corinne Moss-Racusin speak about her PNAS study recently; shocked by widespread subtle perceptive bias

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      1. Calculated Melons‏ @StochasticMeme 5 May 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker weird to call it insulting when it's self-imposed, no?

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      1. Richard Harper‏ @harpersnotes 5 May 2014
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        @sapinker Missing M.I.T. a bit?

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      1. MergerChef‏ @MergerC 5 May 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker wow - good luck in the real world...excuse Mrs. Boss, the client is not fair and doesn't understand me...

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      2. Sipke Shaughnessy‏ @sipkesh 5 May 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker They're campaigning for it, so who exactly is being insulted? The white middle-class man having a go at minority politics?

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      3. Holtz‏ @Biorealism 7 May 2014
        Replying to @sipkesh

        @sipkeo @sapinker a minority of the students want to bring in Orwellian rituals to make certain groups feel bad about themselves. #sjw

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      4. Sipke Shaughnessy‏ @sipkesh 7 May 2014
        Replying to @Biorealism

        @Biorealism Didn't realise they were in a position to implement Orwellian control mechanisms, but cheers for the insight. #missedthepoint

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      5. Holtz‏ @Biorealism 8 May 2014
        Replying to @sipkesh

        @sipkeo not sure how I've missed the point. Also, from the article 1/4 were campaigning for it. The remainder are not white men.

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      6. Sipke Shaughnessy‏ @sipkesh 8 May 2014
        Replying to @Biorealism

        @Biorealism 1/4 campaigning ≠ 1/4 in support. And no, you're right. Stupid pesky minorities oppressing everyone as usual.

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      7. Sipke Shaughnessy‏ @sipkesh 8 May 2014
        Replying to @sipkesh

        @Biorealism Also, let's not forget how apathetic the average student is. 25% is a pretty big deal.

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      8. Holtz‏ @Biorealism 8 May 2014
        Replying to @sipkesh

        @sipkeo is that Pinker is quite right, from the sounds of it, these things are insulting. Not to mention creepy.http://www.thefire.org/university-of-delaware-celebrates-jan-blits-academic-freedom-award-but-why/ …

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      9. Sipke Shaughnessy‏ @sipkesh 8 May 2014
        Replying to @Biorealism

        @Biorealism It's insulting if you take the privilege thing to mean 'feel guilty about who you are'.

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      1. John Hollis  🇺🇸‏ @holliscomputer 5 May 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @FoolishReporter those privileged little punks. Go there to get an education, not to make political statements. Do that AFTER

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